"You and I are told we must choose between a
left or right, but I suggest there is no such
thing as a left or right. There is only an up or
down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum
of individual freedom consistent with order --
or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism."
-- Ronald Reagan
"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven
where they don't need it and hell where they
already have it." -- Ronald Reagan
“In the important
field of security for our old people, it seems
necessary to adopt three principles: First,
non-contributory old-age pensions for those who
are now too old to build up their own insurance.
It is, of course, clear that for perhaps thirty
years to come funds will have to be provided by
the States and the Federal Government to meet
these pensions. Second, compulsory contributory
annuities which in time will establish a
self-supporting system for those now young and
for future generations. Third, voluntary
contributory annuities by which individual
initiative can increase the annual amounts
received in old age. It is proposed that the
Federal Government assume one-half of the cost
of the old-age pension plan,
which ought ultimately to be supplanted by
self-supporting annuity plans.”
Don't
miss this cite! These are the guys who "crashed" the San Francisco
Communist "Peace" rally. They cite as part of their mission one of
my favorite John Stuart Mill quotations:
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed
and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that
nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which
he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own
personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than
himself."
